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slinkydge
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 		I am actually going fishing now.


If I catch a Coelacanth I will be sure to let you all know...
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Caboose8917
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 		maybe these tide charts etc are not about fish at all. look at the facts on HLM. maybe our boxcar monster can reach speeds of 60 mph. maybe it has a sixth sense called electroreception. maybe it has an organ in its head that hides its scent from predators. Trout me if you must.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:39 am
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smartmart
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multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:
And back to game, we're down to:


    Kraten (06/07) - 28/6
    Marj (06/07) - 29/6
    KK (06/07) - 29/6
    Meena (06/07) -30/6
    George (06/07) - 30/6 Removed for some reason, presumably for including scariestthingieversaw on his post
    Division (06/07) -30/6
    Eric Schuran (05/10) -30/6
    Aaron (06/07) -1/7
    Ron (04/02) - 1/7




Left a post, lets wait and see... It was good though; anyone else interested in the comparative neuroanatomy of a Coelacanth is directed here http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50270/1/1051550205_ftp.pdf



Again, can one the identified poster tells me in what time zone they live? I would be able to infirm/confirm if the tide chart is related to post/email from josh.

Edit: my comment was in the quote, tricky new ipad touch scroll when no scroll bar

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Volt
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papazulu wrote:
slinkydge wrote:
look I have no idea how to get an image to show up in my post but look here http://tweetphoto.com/31631760

can you see the similarity between the strange fin on the fish and the weird marking under the RP moon?

slinkydge, thanks for the link.

I checked out your photo comparison of the fin on the HLM fish (which I do think is photoshopped) and the rays on the RP moon and I agree with you. I think there is a similarity. I have never zoomed in on the moon on the RP page and now that I have, I do see it. I also think the curvature of that side of moon mimics the back of the fish on HLM and to me it even looks like the, what I will call coronol effect, around the right side of the rocket pop and the RP moon looks like the tail fin of the HLM fish.

I know it has been brought up before and I cannot remember who brought it up, it may have been you slinkydge, but I also see the similarity between the crater rim and the highlight around the fish eye. Just concurring.



I think you guys are looking into it to much , i don't see the resemblance and even if it did it wouldn't make any sense..
I mean why would josh minker photoshop a background image to have a fish fin vaguely resemble a vague line on the moon of the rocketpuppateers website ...... think about it.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:22 pm
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Melodyman
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 		Well, HLM is in America, so are Josh's email account, CL listings, phone number for his moms funeral etc, ... The box in the attic has a WVA zip code... there has not been one single reference to anyone being in England. Even the trailer shows us that this film will take place in theUS.
But we'll see I guess..In the Star Trek game they had clues all over the world..So far, I dont buy it yet.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:26 pm
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twodten
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smartmart wrote:
multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:
And back to game, we're down to:


    Kraten (06/07) - 28/6
    Marj (06/07) - 29/6
    KK (06/07) - 29/6
    Meena (06/07) -30/6
    George (06/07) - 30/6 Removed for some reason, presumably for including scariestthingieversaw on his post
    Division (06/07) -30/6
    Eric Schuran (05/10) -30/6
    Aaron (06/07) -1/7
    Ron (04/02) - 1/7




Left a post, lets wait and see... It was good though; anyone else interested in the comparative neuroanatomy of a Coelacanth is directed here http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50270/1/1051550205_ftp.pdf



Again, can one the identified poster tells me in what time zone they live? I would be able to infirm/confirm if the tide chart is related to post/email from josh.

Edit: my comment was in the quote, tricky new ipad touch scroll when no scroll bar


Meena here, I'm in NY.

And I don't think that Josh meant he was Literally allergic to paper, I think he was just saying that he didn't like whatever he was doing at his job.

My husband's grandmother died last year, and all of her relatives live within an hour of her house, and it still took over 6 months to sort out all of her belongings, and not even all of them were taken care of, some of them are still in the basement of the house. It takes a long freaking time to go through a lifetime's worth of accumulated stuff.

Brings up an interesting point though probably not related, can we assume that Josh is an only child?

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morrison42zero
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I'm with Volt. I don't see the association here. It's just not a significant match. I'll still be up in the air as to weither or not it's photoshopped. But I'm leaning to NO. Have seen many images googling fish that have similar fin oddities. Not quite as extreme but odd. I think it's just from the flash.



PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:34 pm
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FilmEdge
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Christian Watson wrote:
"there had been a claim of a coelacanth at Tahiti which was never further corroborated. There have been claims from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and from Bermuda and Florida"

(Quote from http://www.dinofish.com/southpacific.html)

Another bit of evidence that strengthens my case...but still nothing on aquariums or paper importers.


Not to argue, just something I noted:

Above you just used a quote saying coelacanths have been claimed to be found in the Mediterranean and from Bermuda and Florida. Yet in your 'supporting argument' post you say:

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5) The Coelacanth doesn't like warm water and Josh has stated in the email that they could be sighted ANYWHERE, and the North sea and Atlantic are pretty cold.


The Med, Bermuda and Florida are warm water regions, and right next to your highlighted pull of the North Sea. Your latest quote seems to contradict your own #5 point earlier, as would the note that they could be sighted "ANYWHERE". Anywhere doesn't seem to discount cold or warm water locations, does it? Your evidence points to a variety of region findings, not just the North Sea.

As for GMT: I believe the default time setting for this forum was GMT, and while setting up my preferences I deviated my time settings to my local zone from that. But that doesn't imply this forum's servers must be in the UK to use GMT as a standard. Rather it is very common online since GMT is... well, GMT. Everyone around the globe knows their relation to it, that's why it's a standard on the internet. But that doesn't mean it's the default *location* of any one or any thing.

As for emailing importers: if I email a studio across town here for publicity information, does that mean I don't live in Los Angeles? Email is such a ubiquitous form of communication, that it's not very convincing to assume communication via email implies great distance between parties.

You've done a lot of work on this, Christian, and it's impressive and compelling. But with what we know, and what we don't yet know, I'm just not sure it's conclusive yet. There's a lot of evidence Josh is in the US, but there's room for uncertainty and mystery too. All I can say is keep at it! I know we'll get a solid answer soon enough. Cheers.

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Xeno Lambrose
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 		Habitat of the coelacanth
Christian;

I agree with Film Edge regarding point 5 you made in your case for where Josh is.

http://www.divetravel.co.za/madagascar.html states regarding Madagascar:

"WATER TEMPERATURE AND VISIBILITY
Water temperature is, on average, in the mid-twenties (mid-seventies converted to Fahrenheit) . Visibility on the inside channel is affected by the currents, which churn up sand and sediment and can vary between five meters and over 20 meters."

Why Madagascar?

Another site, forgot to get the link (you can google this), states:

"The Coelacanth was first found off the coast of Madagascar in the Comoros Islands on December 23rd, 1938 by Marjorie-Courtney Latimer. The Coelacanth has also been found in several locations in Indonesia, as of 1998, in Sulawesi (Fox, 1998). These are the only locations that live Coelacanths have been found. The Indonesian Coelacanths are brown in colour, while the Madagascar Coelacanths are the steel blue colour (McGrouther, 1998)."

The photo that Josh has posted on the HLM site is of a blue coelacanth, hence the Madagascar connection.

As I (and others) have specuated in past posts, either the coelacanth is a code word or a metaphor for something else, or Josh really needs to do some better research.

The coelacanth cannot remain alive in captivity. (Check nova's site.)
And yet, he's very determined to aquire one, implying that it is an endangered fish. From what I've read about the coelacanth was that because it really has no commercial value as a food source, fishermen form many decades would throw them back in the sea after netting them.

I concur with Meena regarding the paper allergy--I thought that it could have been an allusion to "paper work", as in filling out paper work.

As far as the similarity with the fish's fin and the RP moon Film Edge noted (and your image came out clear--I haven't caught on to the knack of attaching one yet--doh!), I just can't see it, and I'm usually pretty good with that type of thing. Maybe it's the lousiness of my monitor, lol.

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smartmart
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twodten wrote:


Meena here, I'm in NY.



Alright, NY is in GMT -5:00. According to HLM, your comments was posted june 29 at 5:42 am.

On june 29th, the best time to spot a rare fish was: 3:02 am- 3:38 am. It gives us a GMT -7:00 location (i know there is 4 min off, but it is sooo close.)

When I looked about the date/time i sent the email I got a reply from Josh, it also gives a GMT -7:00 location.


We need 2-3 more people to check that is it not a pure coincidence.

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Fire Penguin
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smartmart wrote:
twodten wrote:


Meena here, I'm in NY.



Alright, NY is in GMT -5:00. According to HLM, your comments was posted june 29 at 5:42 am.

On june 29th, the best time to spot a rare fish was: 3:02 am- 3:38 am. It gives us a GMT -7:00 location (i know there is 4 min off, but it is sooo close.)

When I looked about the date/time i sent the email I got a reply from Josh, it also gives a GMT -7:00 location.


We need 2-3 more people to check that is it not a pure coincidence.

It's daylight savings time right now, Eastern Time is GMT -4:00. Did you leave DST out of the equation when you calculated using your own email?

Also, it seems a bit unlikely that he's in GMT -7:00, since that would put him in the Rockies. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would expect a fish lover to live on the coast, especially with other clues suggesting he lives on the East Coast.

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Kraten
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 		Kraten Checking in
I am in Central Time - Not sure wher your going with it

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AzureWolf
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 		This has been mentioned before but given the confusion, I just tested it myself, and it will tell you what time your comment was left at even while it's awaiting moderation. I am currently on EDT and it is 4 hours ahead of me, this puts it at UTC or GMT. However, I don't believe this is confirmation Josh is from England, UTC/GMT is the standard. It does lend weight to that theory though.

I'm adding a screenshot, but this is an easy method to test for oneself.
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smartmart
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 		For fire penguin: don't worry I checked for DST.

Ok, Kraten is located in Central time (GMT -6:00) and according to HLM his post was on june 29th at 11:48pm.

The "tide chart" points that on june 28th, the best time is 12:07Pm-12:44PM. Unless Kraten internet server is magically located in Pacific Time (GMT-8:00) or not timed right, the correlation to the previous location at GMT -7:00 is not relevant. Strange though that we encounter the "4 minutes over" as with meena.

At this point your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, I found the idea interesting enough to share. Also, I haven't had another from Josh yet. I'll try to contact him during the "best time to spot" just in case.

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 		CatFish!
Just a thought ... needed to post.
The image in the fins looks (to me) like a black cat's profile.
And the blurry image in the sea weed looks (to me) like a cat hiding in the grass.

Now, before everyone runs out to STIES and types "CatFish" as the device, I've already tried every possible combination ... Including all the fish mentioned on Josh's blog ... (I just don't think a "Device" is available, yet).

I thought the re-pixilated portions of HLM's banner pic looked quite familiar.
So I took my cat out and took some pictures to try to emulate:
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